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Exploring medical breakthroughs the sciences and the arts. Just a few of the benefits of living next door to the University of South Florida. I'm Sondra gappy. Each week on the university we discover how USF programs and services reach beyond the borders of campus to make a life here in Tampa Bay a little richer for people like you and me. The university being right after MORNING EDITION every Tuesday and Thursday. And right before all things considered Tuesdays Thursdays and Saturdays. This is the university beat I'm Sondra happy. You don't have to go halfway around the world to find disappearing cultures. A trip south of Central

Avenue in St. Petersburg is far enough but a project conducted by US of anthropology professor Jason philosophy is preserving the past using tape recording tape. Family came here from Georgia. We hosted. James Oliver Jr. shares his family's history with a researcher in the project. They're developing a community history archive for South St. Pete much of that will be oral history. The stories of those who've been here the community at large has a sense that no one is from here but an ethnic group that has probably the deepest strongest roots in the community is the African-American community which has been here on a steady basis since the late 19th century. Dr. Sokolov ski is guiding the project which will culminate in a CD ROM and website about the heritage of South St. Pete in the big words. For 22 the.

Graduate student Eric Crisp has done much of the hands on work. He says this kind of tape makes the community more cohesive in the future. I think this already has become a community project every step of the way I've consulted people I consider to be really my mentors in the community. They're not just anthropological subjects and not just advisors they're really my mentors and the mentors for future generations. For the university beat. Good. Good. Good. Good. If.

This is the university beat I'm Sondra Guffey is a good chance you're listening to this while you're alone in your car and the idea of alternative transportation has. Probably crossed your mind. But for most of us it's just not an attractive option. After all my car's radio. Researcher Sarah Hendrickson wonders if the 36 hours a year re spent just sitting in traffic makes a car worth life in the fast lane. We also are very eager to inform the community and the public at large that there are services that are available to everyone for free. Hendricks is part of the Center for Urban Transportation Research. Cutter at the University

of South Florida they encourage grassroots solutions to a huge urban problem. Traditionally in our society our response to traffic congestion has always been let's build more roads and let's widen existing roads. Well this solution is really not a solution. One of their most recent successful solutions guaranteed ride home. This gives anyone who uses alternative transportation free taxi rides home each year no more worries about missing your boss. They're taking their message and the solutions directly to the people. OK. At University Mall right next to the place you can take a chance on winning at lotto. You can buy a sure thing like a bus pass and get lots of free commuter information. So think of cutter the next time you're putting in one of those three hundred forty hours you'll spend in your car this year for the university beat. This is the university beat on her coffee.

Go to some of the leading offices in the area like GTD MCI Solomon Brothers and so on and you'll see some of the finest contemporary art. Margaret Miller the executive director of the contemporary art museum at the University of South Florida says these businesses are just a few of the corporate sponsors who make the contemporary art museum possible. Probably you would have work on display through the university that you would not really want to afford as a corporation. And so you can have the best artists in the world exhibit it in your office on a rotating basis and in turn you get to make a tax deductible contribution to the university so you feel like you're opening your wallet. That art is available to all of us. So the best way to learn about it is to experience it. The main event right now features a Belgian artist Patrick Corey on his work. The House of Oscar Sarah T is a three dimensional sound

experience. It's like virtual reality colliding with contemporary literature. One more. When we meeting new knitters which he had not ceased to write to me I fell under this plan. We hear stories like this one from the life of this fictitious character. The friends and people around the experiences of certainty I crapped my telephone and invited a scout to come as soon as possible and tasked with me. The house originated at USF and in mid August it goes on the road to other prestigious museums around the country where the university beat Saundra Guffey. This is the university beat for Gabby.

The victims of Parkinson's include some of the best known Americans. Janet Reno Billy Graham Muhammad Ali and George Shaffer. Not sure who George Shaver is in the ranks of Parkinson's. He'll soon be in the Hall of Fame. George has had Parkinson's since 1986. What's the worst thing about the disease. In my case it was a tremor. I couldn't do anything but not anymore. In 1993 USAF neurologist Dr. Robert Hauser decided George was an excellent candidate for a relatively new procedure. Still in the testing phase quite simply Dr. Hauser implanted an electrode in the thousand mus of George's brain a wire under the skin and connects it to a stimulator that sits like a pacemaker in George's chest. The electrical current suppresses tremors through him a hook up of about that right there immediately.

George Schaffer was the first in the nation to receive the stimulator. Mr. Safir is a great example because we suffered for a long time together trying various medications to improve his tremor. And none were successful a lot had side effects. So when he had his excellent benefit it really improved him functionally and of course that's very very gratifying. Also gratifying for Dr. Hauser and his team at TGA the procedure received FDA approval just three weeks ago. For the university beat'em Santagati. The bag. The bag the bag. The bag eat. The

beans eat the bag. This is the university beat I'm Saugor gaffing. The call to take people from the welfare rolls to the pay rolls is taken seriously here in Tampa Bay. The Community Opportunity partnership Center at the

University of South Florida is helping with welfare recipients. In Central Florida's neediest communities. That's one of the first universities in the nation to have a Community Opportunity Center. It's a role model for success. Faculty students and staff from the colleges of education public health and business are involved. Jerry Lieberman is the director of the center which is only three years old. But during that period of time what has occurred which I think is nationally significant is that we have been able to create with Community Partners a one stop career job development center in the neighborhoods which have the highest unemployment. Those areas in Tarpon Springs Winterhaven the USF area and east Tampa which is the second poorest area and Florida. A center is more than simply a job service. Lieberman emphasizes the community's roles. They are partners working together to create lasting changes and in the big picture everyone benefits.

Overall it's a long term benefit to the university to be able to have a better prepared pool of candidates coming from the neighborhoods. They will also contribute to the communities development and economic development for the entire region for the university beat. The bag the beat. The beat beat the beat. The beat beat the beat. The

band. This is the university beat Sondra Guffey. Our country's most valuable and important pieces of art are housed at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. And that's where you'll also find the work of us that's graphic studio. It's the only university press there on campus the graphic studio is located in the university Technology Center. There's a good chance you'll actually end up here someday. The studio hosts many functions for outside groups art lovers enjoy their lectures that are free and open to the public.

So our mission is to research new techniques in art to publish seized as art work. And then our discoveries are sent out into the world. Noel Smith is the cord mater of publications an education like much of the university and the community she spoke as seen on Latin America and the Caribbean. Graphic studio have been aggressively courting Latin American South American Caribbean artists. Art forms an idea as director Hank Hein says it's all coming together to bring recognition to an important part of our community. We've been the dynamic creative center of Visual Arts in the Tampa area since our founding and it's easy to take that for granted but we're the organization that brings in international standards international artists and makes such an interesting place with Tampa for the creation of art.

And as you drive around town this month look for their unusual billboards for the university beat. You're.

Going. To. Think. This is the university beat I'm Sondra Cathy. It's a devastating disease that threatens many of us all the time or strikes indiscriminately from Ronald Reagan to the man next door. But there's good news. Scientists are making exciting inroads in the quest to conquer. Last fall University of

Minnesota researchers announced they had successfully implanted in mice a gene mutation the one that triggers early onset Alzheimer's in humans. The mutation had been discovered by a research team headed by U.S. Sepehr ologist Michael Mullen. What we've done is built the Ents and lose the. Because what was old was me to announce Armistice Day was a good animal model. We are much closer to a cure because now researchers can readily test thousands of drugs on the mice. The point is we're now on the pace of the discovery process and until November of last year we would. And how did they know the mice had Alzheimer's. The maze test. At first the mice learn their way through no problem. But as they reach the equivalent of mouse middle age they forgot how to get out of the maze. They start to exhibit behavioral disturbances cognitive disturbance reflecting memory losses and other intellectual losses in

humans. Early onset Alzheimer's strikes at about age 55. It's devastating and it's passed on from one generation to the next. Fortunately it's rare. And thanks to the work of Dr. Mullen and others at us we're making progress on all forms of Alzheimer's for the university. I'm Sondra Cathy. This is the university beat I'm Sondra Guffey where Grandma Grandpa going now

try cyberspace. Tampa Bay senior citizens are getting on line and in step with the computer revolution. Thanks to a national program called Senior Net and the University of South Florida's lifelong learning seniors are becoming fully equipped to tackle their own PCs. It's a way to bridge the generation gap in computer knowledge. It's everything from I just really want to learn how to type a letter so I can communicate with my friends too. I want to learn how to do e-mail so I can communicate with my grandchildren all over the country. Or we have some students that comes purely for the social part. Instructor Perry and worse Laura is a volunteer as are all the teachers. Classes are small 10 students one instructor and two coaches. They meet weekly for 10 weeks on the USF campus. The cost only $60. I had an ex-student call me the other day and she said I'm disappointed there are no

new classes life taken everything. In fact I've taken some things twice. Retiree Ernest Zeman has aced nine Senior Net classes. What's the best way I can think of a better way to get into it and then seeing your earnest desire on his computer every day for email games America Online and even balancing his checkbook. So hand over the joystick grandparents are on their way for the university beat. I'm saunter gapping. This is the university beat Santagati.

I wanted to go to med school and work not for chemistry and biology and physics and calculus. I may have made at USF School of Medicine knows there are lots of folks like me who are interested in health care and medicine and just want to learn. So they've come up with the many med school 10 hours of lively lectures in layman's terms. This week we are talking about a very practical important common clinical problems that 550 of us at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center that evening are here because we're curious about the art and science of diagnosis. Personally for me I feel a better informed patient someone who knows what's happening with their body and helps the doctors in in taking care of us. I thought it was very interesting I came last year for the first time. I wasn't just and coming again. One of the lecturers Dr Paul Wallach feels he has an obligation to reach into the community any opportunity to increase understanding by our patients

improves the physician patient interaction relationship and ultimately impedes to improve health care. Unlike real med school this is free and there are no tests. Best part. There is a little graduation ceremony at the end of the Med School and we all get diplomas for the university beat. I'm Sondra Guffey. This is the university beat I'm Sondra Guffey.

Well USAF is an academic institution it's also a business and with a population of 36000 it's the size of a small town. All those things that keep it running USF buys from Bay area businesses. People are burned as founder and president of one of those companies. I'm one of those stories that the true American dream coming to reality. I started the business out of my garage back in 1989 with an answering machine the burner group sells commercial and industrial equipment and supplies to companies like Pratt and Whitney Lockheed Martin and USAF as a minority and business people are has faced plenty of roadblocks but says USAF goes out of its way to help tear down obstacles. Steve Batchelor purchasing Werner at the university sees to it that minority owned enterprises get a chance to bid for our business. We are required to buy the lowest bid so we're looking for a company who can competitively.

Supply us big competitively or quote competitively and and supply the good service we need in the two years he's been here minority owned businesses have taken a dramatically bigger slice of the pie. Over 60 million dollars last year compared to 4.7 million in 94. And where does the money go. Much of it to construction. Or high tech businesses. His work is paying off. Steve Batchelor was just named the minority business enterprise coordinator of the year in the Bay Area for the university beat. I'm Sondra gotta. Win. This is the university beat on Sondra Guffey.

10 percent of adults in the US will be victims of some kind of crime. The answer isn't to just lock them up. And throw away the key. Fighting crime starts in the classroom with an academic approach. John Cochrane is the associate chair of the Department of Criminology at USF a popular major on campus. But frankly the crime rate is going down and has been going down throughout the 90s. The underlying problem that we examined. It's not as serious as it used in spite of the statistics. Their services are still in demand. Most USAF grads go into some aspect of criminal justice within the state. In our own backyard us out is joining forces with police in Tampa. A number of the faculty grad students are working with them to help implement and improve and then evaluate community policing effort. So research for this department goes well beyond the campus.

Faculty and students actually hit the streets. We are hired as consultants to help address issues. Some faculty are lawyers. From our expert witnesses our guest speakers serve as mental health therapists using education to help protect and serve us all for the university. I'm Santagati. With. With. With. This is the university beat on Santagati.

Sure the holidays are two months away but it's time to start thinking about giving employees of USF are in the midst of their annual charitable giving campaign. The operation is simple. Participants designate a small percentage of their pay to go to charity. The money comes straight from their paychecks. What you don't have. You can't spend. It's a painless way of giving. Most people don't even miss the money. This year's goal for us staff is to raise $250000. Dean Robert Sullens is chairing the effort. I think it's sort of truly one of the core parts of the end community. We all have to support each other help each other. In times of need. No one knows this better than Captain Marc Israel of the Salvation Army. Our programs are designed to meet the need at the point of need whatever that is whether it's clothing shelter food counseling whatever that is the Salvation Army is not part of the United Way but they are one of the hundreds of charitable

organizations that state of Florida employees can designate as recipients. That's because the campaign has expanded. Today's Salvation Army can no longer survive on simply the money raised by bell ringers. Thirty thousand people a month that depend on year round gifts for the university. If.

This is the university beat I'm Sondra Guffey. What road to the Broadway stage starts in our own community. We have talent here. Actor and USAF student Chris Clayton makes his point. He has a lead role in boy's life which ran earlier this month at USA. Thank you. There were only 50 of us here for the Sunday matinee performance. The intimate atmosphere of theater 2 is ideal for what Director David Frankel wants to communicate. I love the theatre and think that it's still one of the the best ways of letting people see the possible outcomes of certain kinds of behavior and allowing them to sort of experience vicariously

different sorts of situations where we can sort of experiment with what it means to be human. Young people and families are encouraged to join the quest. We're here. Patrick Santoro is one of several of these talented actors who's committed to theatre and to education. We provide quality theater and it's reasonably priced and you come for an evening you find a great show. He's planning to teach English at a Florida school. There are US on the stage for area high school students in the summer through the summer pli program. There are four more productions for the 1978 season Dancing at Manassas next in mid-November. For the university. I'm Sondra Cathy. The big. Dog. Eat.

Dog. Will. Absorb. Heat from. The beat of. The bag. This is the university beat I'm Sondra Guffey. Art is an attempt to understand

why what you have been sent to harness here to bring art to the people as public artwork nater at us as he does so daily. The university is one of the most active in the country in public art. So when a Clearwater community leader wanted to transform an eyesore into art she turned to us after help. Oh it's marvelous. Here's a chance for our students who are talking about how they can be involved in an public art and his chance for real world chance for them to go out and actually do something. Beyond. Just north of all Martin in Clearwater Donegan road winds to connect several main arteries. The thirty five hundred commuters who travel the road each day face a 300 foot long six foot high wall. It was bare stark and cold but USF artist painted a brilliant mural on the wall that stands on property leased by environmental building products. And what better place to create a site specific art from the mundane. Looking here the way it operates. This thing goes up.

It all comes down and you have. A sense of what. We hide in the wall the startup company is creating its own art by recycling castoff materials like polystyrene glass and wood chips into an innovative lighter than concrete building block. The business donated the paint vivid bold colors and six undergraduate art students led by art professor Bruce Marsh transformed the wall into a spectacular mural that pays tribute to Florida's native plants animals and birds for the university beat. I'm Sandra Gaffney. Didn't. Eat from.

The bomb. Didn't. Eat. Dog. Eat Dog. Eat Dog. This is the university beach I'm Sondra got the. Mention IFOR and most of us cringe at the thought of the harrowing drive from Tampa to

Orlando. I mentioned I for two of the new technology driven leaders of the Bay Area like Michael Kovacs dean of the College of Engineering and they see a gold mine. Or more appropriately a silicon mine for the I-4 Corridor basically is a coordinated economic development bus that's being led by the university's USF and the University of Central Florida have joined forces to attract major high tech companies to the area that strip extending from Tampa through Orlando to the Space Coast is a very interesting high technology in the state of Florida. It is basically a sleeping giant. We're one of the nation's leading technology States in terms of money. The average annual salary for a high tech worker is forty seven thousand dollars nearly double that of a non high tech employee. These companies cluster around the intellectual capital produced by the universities and that's what we're all about. Kovacs says the college of business already has a proven track record for training entrepreneurs. The combined force of bright engineers with solid business plans.

Is exactly what attracts the industry. Everybody should get involved in this from the editorial boards to the suppliers of electronic equipment service uniforms have something to gain from this. So my recommendation is that everybody become informed as to what this impact could be. For the university beat. Didn't. Need. The bernabéu. Heat from. The beat. Eat the

bag. Eat. Dog. Eat Dog. Eat. This is the university beat for Guffey. It's not often we find a health care professional saying anything positive about nicotine especially when it involves children. Let us have psychologist Paul Sandberg

is quick to distinguish between the hazards of cigarette smoking and the benefits of the drug nicotine. Research now suggests that nicotine improves cognitive function and can be helpful in treating certain neuro psychiatric disorders especially in children. Sandberg and his colleagues started their nicotine research with children with Tourette's syndrome. A lot of people just didn't believe it. You know that it would work in that how are they going to their patients to do it and how do they get mothers to agree to give kids nicotine. But the low dose of nicotine isn't addictive. And many parents like Gloria from feel desperate the situation we were with. And Tara I was willing to try anything to rats is the disorder that makes its victims prone to twitches or teks. Outbursts of cursing and hyperactivity. But when a child with Tourette's wears a nicotine patch the symptoms dramatically subside. Justin was the first local child in the study. Now that's been going very well. The path was effective

immediately for Justin and stopped to pick a mediately. Now the neurosurgery department is launching studies of the nicotine patch on young people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Dr. Sandberg emphasizes that patients in these studies get excellent health care and close medical monitoring during the drug trial for the university beat. This is the university beat I'm Sondra Guffey. During the roaring 20s

Ebor city roared. As with a lot of pollution yet the two sides. But there was a lot of vice and crime. Paul camp is a librarian in the Special Collections at USF main library. Every artifact on display has a story and Paul knows almost all of them. For example the Cuban game bullied a ball for many years. The bleeder rings a mainstay of organized crime in the Tampa Bay area. Believe it was a popular gambling game where numbered balls were put in a sack tossed around in the catcher would tie off an unseen ball. The winning number. The House quickly learned how to fix the game so they would do something like using one of these which is a lead loaded believable. Then there's the top and we'll it looks like a lamp with an a little bowl turned upside down on top.

It's a crude Roulette type game but the history of Ebor is really the story of cigar making. They consider themselves crafts as a skilled craft. They were also a very politically aware group so much so that during the 1890s Tampa was one of the main hot beds of revolutionary activity for Cuba's liberation from Spain and the great Cuban. Apostle of Liberty has a marquis visited Tampa and made some of his major speeches here. Tampa a trip through our spicy past is waiting in the special collections for the university. This is the university beat I'm Sondra Guffey.

Why don't I go for a second grader Vincent bonito my microphone and headphones were amazing finds my turn. I'm going to talk to Sandra for a minute OK. For his mother Neal of Benito he is amazing. Both Vincent and his younger brother have autism and neither has ever sung her stranger. As with many children with autism Vincent doesn't talk much. But that doesn't mean he doesn't have something to say. Well one thing I find a lot of people don't really understand the possibilities and the abilities my sons have and they don't focus on the strengths. And what I do as a parent is I try to do all I can to help my sons be the best that they can be. The Benito's get support ideas and encouragement through the families as teachers program. Part of the Florida mental health institute at USA the program focuses on helping the entire family cope by easing tension in the home so

the child's development can blow. It has taken us a long time to finally realize the role of families Dr. Albert says this is unfortunately a relatively new concept of role change even viewed as patient as a need of cream and as the cause of problems with their children. Today we've added another role. They are partners for collaborators for Vincent and Joseph. The possibilities are limitless for the university beat. I'm sauntering up.